••• The New York Times‘ Frank Bruni visited Ward III, where he designed a drink called the BruniBerry (right). It looks tasty, but it sounds, um, anatomical—unflatteringly anatomical, actually.

••• NYT art critic Roberta Smith, meanwhile, checked out James Franco’s show at Clocktower Gallery: “Some people would probably feel better to read that Mr. Franco’s Clocktower effort can be dismissed as bad beyond redemption, an outsider’s naïve dalliance in things he doesn’t really understand. I initially inclined toward that conclusion, although in the end it turned out to be more interesting and complicated than that.”

••• Zagat got a Tribeca Grill sommelier to pair wines with fast food.

••• The Switch, the new Jennifer Aniston movie that filmed a scene at Equinox Tribeca (no clue whether the scene made the final cut), opens today. Here’s the NYT review. (Best line: “Ms. Aniston relies on her wholesome appeal as a walking vanilla milkshake to emerge from the movie relatively unscathed.”)

••• Elizabeth Hawes, author of New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930, writes about loft living for the NYT Opinionator blog. I think this is the nut graf, as we journalist types say: “It was only after the Depression and modernism had taken hold that the model began to change to reflect a new century and its new spirit, and luxury came to mean something more adventuresome and original than outdated ritual and extravagance—a model that reached its maturity with the Soho and Tribeca loft.”

••• QED: “Courtney Sale Ross—the widow of Time Warner conglomerator Steve Ross and founder of the Ross School in East Hampton—is moving downtown. She just bought a $7.3 million Tribeca loft at 7 Hubert.” (New York Post)

••• T Magazine mini-profiles the brand Highland, which it says is based (or at least was at one point) on “the outskirts of Tribeca.”

••• The Economist explains why opposing Park51 is “unjust and dangerous.” I’d add “un-American” to that.